The Fruit in Schools (FIS) programme is a Ministry of Health initiative focused on improving children’s learning through promoting the health of the school community.There are four areas of FIS:

1. Healthy eating
2. Physical activity
3. Being SunSmart
4. Being SmokeFree

A SPARC initiative with a focus on a whole school community working together to be an “Active School” with benefits to children and adults. Active Schools:

• Creates opportunities for all children to be active, based on their needs, abilities and interests
• Involves the whole school community; the whole community takes ownership of an active environment
• Encourages children to be active for life

Feeding our Futures is a part of Healthy Eating-Healthy Action (HEHA), the Ministry of Health’s strategic approach to improving nutrition, increasing physical activity and achieving healthy weight for all New Zealanders.

School Support Services provides teacher support and guidance by facilitating teacher development programmes in schools throughout the Waikato, Hauraki, Coromandel, King Country, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Wairoa and East Coast Regions. School Support Services are part of the services offered by the University of Waikato, School of Education.

Since its beginnings in 1985, more than one million New Zealand children have participated in The National Heart Foundation of New Zealand's Jump Rope for Heart (JRFH) programme.

The programme has established itself as a leading physical education resource for schools across the country. The programme is a valuable tool in promoting the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyles to primary and intermediate-aged students, as they learn age-appropriate, curriculum-based skipping and movement skills from the educational resource.

Health Promoting Schools (HPS) is a worldwide movement developed by the World Health Organisation in the early 1990s to promote and support the health and wellbeing of children and young people. Since 1997, many schools in New Zealand have become part of this movement.

HPS is project based, and aimed at changing the school environment to make the healthy choice the easy choice. It involves a whole of school approach and encourages the active participation of young people in decision making. In addition to smokefree, HPS initiatives have focused on issues such as:

• Supporting and promoting staff and student wellbeing
• Improving nutrition (healthy food choices at school)
• playground safety (physical, social and emotional)

SportsForce is a programme managed by Sport Waikato and funded by Trust Waikato. SportsForce Development Officers are employed by their sport to Help make Sport Happen, working with volunteers to recruit, train and retain.

SportsForce commenced in 1999 and aims to increase participation in sport by building a larger base of committed and active volunteers.

SportsForce is a partnership between Sport Waikato and Regional Sporting Organisations which allows major sporting codes to employ Regional Development Officers to develop and grow their support's volunteer base.